Mr. Goudy: I saved my cabbages one year by using that.
Mr. Moore: Some people claim salt is good. One of the students mentioned it to me. One applied it by putting a spoonful around over the head, another dissolved a tablespoonful in about ten quarts of water and sprayed it on. Salt is rather injurious to vegetation as a rule. Of course, they only put it on the leaves, and the cabbage is a hardy plant. Air slaked lime is also good, but would have to be applied several times. With the arsenate you apply it once and kill all the brood.
Mr. Ludlow: We took them all off of mine one year by using boiling hot water.
Mr. Moore: Yes, sir; water is very good. The objection is, on a large scale it is not feasible.
Mr. Miller: Slug shot is very good.
Mr. Moore: Yes, sir; it doesn't contain very much poison, but it is sufficient to kill the cabbage worm.
Mr. Cadoo: I used just simply wood ashes.
Mr. Moore: The cabbage worm is one that is very easy to handle.
A Member: I have always used salt. I think it makes a more firm and solid head, that is my theory, I don't know whether I am right or not. I have been doing that for years.
Mr. Moore: I don't know. I never heard of the treatment with salt until two or three days ago when several students mentioned that they used salt. Some people won't use Paris green. There was one case a man said his wife wouldn't let him do it even if she knew it wasn't poison; she didn't like the idea of Paris green on cabbage.